The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-05-27
NEW YORK LETTER.
Comments Upon Things in General and
Women in Particular.
Especial Correspondence

comments Upon Things in General and
Women in Particular.
Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, May 16
The widow, son and son-in-law of Henry
Ward Beecher are preparing life of the
great preacher, and, as in the case of the
Memoirs of Grant," the entire country will
be districted out to canvassers It will be
the only authentic life of Beecher, and it is
said will contain some private letters of ne.
culiar interest.
When women of culture look around for
employment at the beginning of the tradi-
tional rainy day they would be tolerably sure
of finding something congenial and remu nera-
tive if they would take any one thing for
which they have taste if not a talent, culti-
vate it and devote themselves to it. OF
course they must begin in a small way: but
In this country there is always growth for
any branch of business under the sun il it is
cosnucted with ability and energy. AS one
woman who had chance to know whereof
she spoke said: "You can sell Croton water
here in New York at 81 bottle If you have
1t put up and labeled neatly and advertise it
judiciously under some other name. Indeed,
am not sure that you could not sell it under
its own name if you had it labeled Superior
Croton water There is Mary Tillinghast,
OF a family which had wealth and social DO
sition, the head of which suddenly failed and
died. The widow and daughters moved
into the country. Mary was the eldest
and had artistic gifts. She had gone
abroad and worked faithfully in Carolus
Duran's studio for a year or longer. She de-
cided to try to make her artistic requirements
a means of earning livelihood. She went
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company was just being organized They
decorated the Union League club and the
Vanderbilt houses. Miss TilIinghast invented
and patented new kind of tapestry for the
Vanderbilt houses, for which she was paid
$300v0, but they were so costly in material
and contained so much embroidery that she
did not have a large profit even at that price
Lafarge & Co. failed three years ago. Miss
Tillinghast went abroad and stayed year
and a half, and is now decorating without a
partner. She decorated the house of Tele-
phone Bell in Washington, and is now at
work on a house in Gramercy park for Cyrus
Fields son. Yes, and she has made the first
church window ever made by a woman in
this country, and it will soon be put in it's
place at Grace church, this city. Miss Til
linghast was among the artists who sent in
designs for the proposed window. The COM
mittee had scruples in regard to awarding
the contract to woman. 1t looked little
like helping to shatter the universe, but her
design was the best and she gotit. But they
said she should use English glass. She said
she would not. She had her way. Yes,
every woman under the sun who has any
ability in any direction could turn it to ac-
count il she would only perfect herself in 1
whatever line she started out on.
Fl @One trouble with women in the matter of
earning their bread is that they have rather
narrow ideas in regard to the respectability
of certain kinds of business. If they canir.t
be bankers or railroad presidents they don't
want to be anything. They will write poe
try, paint plaques or teach lanauagrs ii
starvation figures, and be conlioltaiae il
mind, beca,iS. those TIL are Glazed amoI.,
tie agenteer' enploymenas for gentiewomell.
AT least they were when the world had less
sense THANH has now. But as for going i,,fe
some business calling in their own names. al.u
running it quite like man would-oh. dear,
no. they wouldn't like that. They would lose
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